In Fiction
- Henry Miller's Plexus (Book Two of The Rosy Crucifixion) discusses John Brown.
- The 1998 biographical novel about John Brown, Cloudsplitter, by Russell Banks was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. It is narrated from the point of view of Brown's surviving son, Owen.
- The 1994 novel, Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, by George MacDonald Fraser. The central character, Harry Paget Flashman becomes involved in the Harpers Ferry Raid; the novel includes both a description of the raid and a study of the character of John Brown.
- The 1921 dramatic monologue "John Brown" by Edwin Arlington Robinson. In which, Brown speaks to his wife on the night before his execution.
- In Langston Hughes's Selected Poems, on page 10 is a poem called October 16. In the poem Hughes celebrates John Brown's actions.
- In the stealth-espionage game Splinter Cell: Double Agent, the antagonist fraction JBA (John Browns Army), is a terrorist group dedicated in the name of John Brown and his visions.
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